Analyst, Global Merchant Services Pricing - EMEA

Job Description

Do the right thing for our customers, our company and your career.

American Express is a global service company, providing customers with exceptional access to products, insights and experiences that enrich lives and build business success. An engine of commerce, American Express provides innovative payment, travel and expense management solutions for individuals and businesses of all sizes. Most of all, we help our customers realize their dreams and aspirations through industry-leading benefits, access to unique experiences, business-building insights, and global customer care. We enable our customers to do and achieve more.

We believe there's no better way to achieve your own potential than by working with a company that helps other people achieve theirs. At American Express, you'll be encouraged to push yourself, take smart risks and collaborate across the company. If you want more than just a job, are not afraid of embracing challenges and are passionate about what you do for a living, join our team today!

The Global Merchant Services (GMS) Pricing team is responsible for the single largest source of American Express' revenue: Merchant Discount Revenue. The team works closely with multiple business partners to determine the optimal pricing to encourage merchant acceptance of American Express, while striving to improve coverage and merchant satisfaction. Ultimately, we drive GMS revenue and profit growth through customer-centric pricing principles, more flexible pricing architecture and innovative pricing solutions.

The Analyst of Merchant Pricing - EMEA is responsible for supporting the development of various pricing strategies across EMEA. This position is responsible for driving important broad-scale pricing initiatives aimed at preserving our merchant discount rate while balancing the organization's goal for profitable charge volume and merchant expansion; essential to the strength of our business. This person will partner closely with our sales teams to develop merchant acquisition pricing strategies, our client management team (CLM) to develop retention strategies, and develop industry-level analyses on our price points.

This is an excellent opportunity for an individual to gain deep knowledge of the Merchant business, as well as exposure to and insight from senior leaders across the Blue Box. The Analyst should be a dynamic individual who can work closely with senior leaders and has the right ambition to drive change.

Job Responsibilities

Supporting the development of pricing strategies based on quantitative data analytics and provide recommendations on key financial / commercial terms during merchant negotiations

Providing analytical support for business cases for various merchant pricing scenarios, model P&L impacts, and perform sensitivity analyses to drive agile business decisions

Develop sophisticated financial models to help scenario analyses for large scale pricing initiatives and evaluating their effectiveness

Contribute to the ongoing development of an infrastructure that identifies opportunities for sharing best business practices, streamlines implementation of contract/payment terms, and other internal processes

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.

Qualifications

Required skills:

Experience with a Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience

Demonstrated strategic thought leadership and comfort working with unstructured problems

Why American Express? Talk to our people and you'll find out what we're really all about. Open, creative, risk-taking, collaborative and innovative are just some of the expressions you'll hear. It's our culture that makes American Express an outstanding place to work, and a big part of why we regularly win best workplace awards all over the world including recognition amongst the World's Best Multinational Workplaces by Great Place to Work and Glassdoor's 2017 Best Places to Work. If you're ready to take on a challenge and make an impact, you owe it to yourself to launch or grow your career here.

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